Lots of people went wild last month at the news that scientists had suddenly discovered some sort of physics holy grail: metallic hydrogen, hydrogen that turned into a metal. Gizmodo didn’t buy the hype. Well, according to ScienceAlert, that metal hydrogen sample has now disappeared.
Motorola really got the ball rolling on smartwatches with circular displays a couple of years ago when it came out with the original Moto 360. However, there has been radio silence from the Lenovo-owned company over its smartwatch plans recently, but it has finally spoken up about those plans at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona. It’s not good news for Moto smartwatch fans, though.
Miles Norman, General Manager UK & Ireland & European Operators at Motorola confirmed to TechRadar at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona that the company is re-evaluating smartwatches at this point in time. “We see it as something that really needs a killer user application and that’s probably a little bit missing at the moment,” he said.
The Motorola executive acknowledged that there are some really cool smartwatches out there right now but the company is looking for something that’s “really, absolutely fantastic.” Motorola is not saying that it’s never going to make another smartwatch but it’s saying that we’ll have to wait for a while until it figures out what it wants to do in the wearable market.
Norman also confirmed that this doesn’t mean Motorola will stop selling the Moto 360 online. Those who want to pick up its smartwatch can still do so via the company’s online store.
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Verizon recently decided that it would start offering an unlimited plan again and it took only a couple of days for T-Mobile to respond in kind by improving its unlimited plan. AT&T has been quiet for several weeks but it’s now coming out with a new unlimited plan in response to its rivals. They’ve been competitively priced to keep Verizon and T-Mobile in check.
AT&T subscribers will pay $90 per month for its flagship unlimited plan that promises them endless 4G LTE data as long as they stay below the 22GB fair use cap after which their speed will be throttled. Subscribers will also get 10GB of data for tethering for speed throttling comes into play.
Those who want to add a second line to their plan will have to pay a total of $145 monthly and additional lines would then be added on top of that for $20 extra per month. AT&T sweetens the deal for DirecTV or U-Verse subscribers by offering them a $25 monthly bill credit on this plan.
AT&T is also offering an Unlimited Choice plan for those who are conscious about spending too much money on a mobile plan. This unlimited plan caps mobile data speeds at 3Mbps and scales streaming video down to 480p automatically. A single line on this plan costs $60 per month and $155 per month for four lines. Customers can’t get a bill credit on this plan.
The carrier will roll out these plans starting March 2nd.
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At the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 last month, HTC announced a couple of new accessories for its Vive virtual reality headset. The company has confirmed the official price for the Vive Tracker and Vive Deluxe Audio Strap accessories at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona. It has also revealed HTC Vive financing options that will be available to customers who are looking to pick up its virtual reality headset.
The company has confirmed that its Vive Tracker accessory which enables users to transform real-world objects into VR peripherals will be sold to developers starting March 27th for $99. A consumer version of this accessory is going to be released later this month.
HTC’s Vive Deluxe Audio Strap is going to be available for pre-order starting May 2nd for $99. This accessory features integrated headphones, an adjustable dial at the back and a tougher strap. HTC has said that after pre-orders are opened on March 2nd it’s going to start delivering the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap at some point in June.
HTC Vive customers in the United States who purchase the headset from Vive.com in North America will be eligible for new financing options which include 0 percent financing for six months for a total monthly cost of $128, 0 percent financing for 12 months with a total monthly payment of $66.58, and 7.99 percent financing for 24 months at a total monthly payment of $40.13. Tax and shipping will be added to all three options.
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Motorola took to the stage at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona yesterday to unveil two new handsets, the Moto G5 and the Moto G5 Plus. It detailed everything that’s new in these devices and what sets them apart from the competition. The company will now gradually release the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus in most markets across the globe. It has confirmed the Moto G5 Plus release date for India via a Twitter post.
The official Twitter account for Moto India confirmed that the Moto G5 Plus is going to arrive in the country on March 15th. It hasn’t said anything about the smaller Moto G5 but it’s highly likely that it would be launched alongside the Moto G5 Plus on March 15 as well.
Even though it has confirmed when the handset is going to arrive, the company is yet to confirm how much it’s going to cost in local currency, but we’ll certainly receive that information in the days leading up to the release.
India is one of the largest markets for Motorola’s Moto G series so it goes without saying why the company is focusing on bringing this handset to India as soon as possible. It would be hoping that the design changes and improvement in specifications is enough to make customers in India pick up a Moto G5 Plus.
You either get a flaunt-worthy phone or a fast processor. #WhyCompromise when you can get both? Wait for the #MotoG5Plus.
Arriving on 15/03. pic.twitter.com/qVVQ0EREI7— Moto India (@Moto_IND) February 27, 2017
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AT&T has announced a partnership with GE’s Current that will, in time, help transform existing cities into so-called ‘smart cities.’ This will be done by rolling out Internet of Things devices within the regions, with one relevant technology being smart street lights that keep tabs on air quality, issue alerts for emergency weather conditions, and even listen for gunshots and … Continue reading
News of researchers’ efforts to bring back the long-extinct wooly mammoth has caught the public’s attention, and while the prospect is interesting, many are against it. That project in particular has its own controversies, such as whether it is ethical to bring back a creature that will have no social group of its own, but the entire de-extinction project as … Continue reading
The 2017 Game Developers Conference is happening this week in San Francisco, and we’re here to keep you up to date on all the latest news from the event. Like last year, companies such as HTC and Oculus will probably share new virtual reality develop…
Well, the folks in Ivrea, Italy, certainly won’t get scurvy!
In the annual Battle of the Oranges in this northern Italian town, people literally throw oranges at each other in a symbolic display of rebellion.
We’re not sure if the celebration, held in the days leading up to Fat Tuesday, is wildly painful or just a great juicy time for all, but the story behind it is sort of cool.
Apparently, the festival celebrates a medieval legend in which a miller’s daughter rejected the advances of the local tyrant on the eve of her wedding and cut off his head, inspiring her neighbors to rise up and free the town. Presumably, the actual rebels hurled rocks, not oranges.
People used to celebrate this event by throwing beans. At some point in the 19th century, women began tossing oranges from their balconies to men they liked. If the men felt the same, they’d throw the oranges back.
Today, the town divides up into nine squads for the festival. They dress in battle attire and spend three days (THREE!!) hurling oranges at each other.
It’s the largest food fight in Italy ― though not in Europe, because that award goes to Spain’s La Tomatina. More than 500,000 pounds of oranges are destroyed in what is likely the most Vitamin C-laden battle ever.
Catch all the wet, fruity madness below:
For more orange-y fun, take a look under the #BattleOfOranges hashtag.
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WASHINGTON ― Reversing a position the Justice Department has maintained for years, the Trump administration’s Civil Rights Division will state in federal court this week that the federal government no longer claims Texas legislators acted with discriminatory intent in 2011 when they passed one of the strictest voter ID laws in the nation.
The Justice Department will still take the position that the Texas voter ID law has a discriminatory impact on black and Latino voters, according to a source familiar with their decision. It’s unclear at this point whether DOJ will take the position that Texas legislatures acted without discriminatory intent, or if they simply will remain neutral on the question, but a filing is expected by the end of the day.
The DOJ’s new position is a disappointment to voting rights advocates, and evidently within the Civil Rights Division, where lawyers were worried about the future of the division under Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Federal court records indicated that John Gore, currently the No. 2 official in the Civil Rights Division, will represent the Justice Department in federal court on Tuesday.
That’s quite unusual: Gore’s position is typically managerial, and there are any number of career Civil Rights Division attorneys who normally would argue the case, including several line attorneys in the Voting Section who have been working on the Texas case for years. (The acting head of the Civil Rights Division in the Trump administration, Tom Wheeler, is recused from the Texas voter ID case because he offered Texas lawmakers advice on writing the law.) Before he joined Trump’s Justice Department, Gore defended Republican redistricting plans from court challenges. Gore also helped file an amicus brief in support of Virginia’s voter ID law, though that state’s law was less restrictive than other voter ID laws and was upheld by another federal appeals court.
The issue before the federal court is whether Texas would be placed under pre-clearance, requiring it to run any changes to its election laws by the federal government before they go into effect. Texas had previously been required to clear such changes, but a 2013 Supreme Court decision gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, after which Texas tried to move forward with the implementation of the law.
The Texas voter ID law ― signed by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Trump’s nominee for Energy Secretary ― was called an “unconstitutional poll tax” by a federal judge in 2014. Though the judge said she found no “smoking guns” that revealed a racist intention behind the law, she found it was passed with discriminatory intent. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit found the law had a discriminatory impact, but kicked the question of whether it was purposefully discriminatory back down to the lower court.
The outside civil rights groups that are part of the case will press on without the support of Sessions’ Justice Department.
This story will be updated with details on DOJ’s filing.
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